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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 30</span><span class="fp-text">LES GRENOUILLES REDOUTANT UN COMBAT DE TAUREAUX</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XXX</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="RANE  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">RANAE</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="RANAE  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">RANE</span></span> METUENTES TAURORUM PRAELIA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les petits pâtissent toujours des discordes des grands.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une grenouille, en regardant de son marais un combat de Taureaux, s'écria&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Hélas&nbsp;! quel malheur nous menace&nbsp;!&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une de ses compagnes lui demanda pourquoi ces plaintes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">puisqu'ils se battaient pour l'empire du troupeau,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et que, d'ailleurs, ils vivaient si loin d'elles.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Oui, répondit la grenouille, ils ont d'autres demeures,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ils sont d'une autre espèce ; mais le vaincu, chassé du royaume des bois,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">viendra dans les endroits les plus cachés de nos marais,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et nous écrasera impitoyablement sous ses pieds.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ainsi notre sort dépend de leur fureur.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Rana in palude pugnam taurorum intuens&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Heu&nbsp;! quanta nobis instat pernicies&nbsp;!&nbsp;» ait.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Interrogata ab alia cur hoc diceret,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">de principatu cum illi certarent <span class="fp-correction" title="greges  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">gregis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="gregis  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">greges</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Longeque ab illis degerent vitam boves&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Est <span class="fp-correction" title="ratio  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">statio</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="statio  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">ratio</span></span> separata, inquit, ac diversum genus ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">expulsos regno nemoris qui profugerit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">paludis in secreta veniet latibula</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et proculcatas obteret duro pede.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ita caput ad nostrum furor illorum pertinet.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Deux_Taureaux_et_une_Grenouille">Les deux Taureaux et une Grenouille</a></div>
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